EPA releases screening data on 1,800 chemicals

5:58 AM MST | December 20, 2013

EPA has announced the release of data from innovative screening technologies for 1,800 chemicals that are found in industrial and consumer products, food additives, and drugs through its Chemical Safety for Sustainability, or iCSS Dashboard. As part of this data release, EPA is announcing the ToxCast Data Challenges, a series of challenges inviting the science and technology community to work with the data and provide solutions for how the new chemical screening data can be used to predict potential health effects. The data have been gathered through advanced...